Yup, really wish I could've seen 'em live back at their peak. They were pushing the envelope, doing something different. Hard to believe this was (mostly) the same band that cranked out shiny pop filler -- complete with EWF horns -- for the MTV era.

I even like most of the post-Gabriel stuff up until "Duke", so I'm not one of the rabid "Genesis wasn't worth a damn after Gabriel left" crowd. (I do think it borders on criminal that the track ordering of Duke was rearranged to split the "Duke Suite" up into three pieces though. IMO they should've left it intact as one complete side of the album, and put all the shorter standalone songs on the other side.)

Jethro Tull, July 21, 1982, at the Princes Trust Rock Gala. Notable mainly for this being before Ian Anderson lost his voice and that the drummer is some balding Cockney guy whose sartorial tastes run to Hawaiian shirts and shorts, i.e. what he wore in his guest shot on Miami Vice.

If the Earth were flat, cats would have pushed everything off of it by now.

Periphery II. Just grabbed it from Amazon MP3 for $7.99 but they put the whole thing on youtube at reduced quality. I'm enjoying the crap out of it, but a lot of people complain about Spencer's voice. It has a very Protest the Hero quality to it though which I dig. He also should be commended for not using any pitch correction this time around.

Oh, and let's not forget guest solos from John Petrucci, Wes Hauch from The Faceless, and Guthrie Govan from The Aristocrats.

Anyway I think the whole effort really showcases their talent as a band.

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I typically hate on dubstep, but I recently found Omnitica. PROGRESSIVE dubstep/house. The songs actually have a lot of variety for the genre, and anything that involves a good amount of theory is, well, music to my ears.